Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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... faction within the Liberty Party that would serve as a counter- weight to the Cincinnati clique's coalition politics . Within the party , the Liberty League had no support outside of New York.2 In August 1848 , when the Liberty Party ...
... factions : the Seward and Fillmore factions among the Whigs and the Barnburners or Radicals and the Hunkers or ... faction until his retirement from politics after his loss of the nomination to Polk in 1844 . The Hunkers earned ...
... faction ( s ) from one or both of the two main parties . Chase did attend the Buffalo convention in October . All the three main factions of the party were present ; the traditionalists , by far the most numerous of the three factions ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |